Cameron Matheson wrote: >I want to have a POP mail account very badly (I'm >getting sick of using this online account), but I >can't get Mozilla's mail client to work through my >proxy server. I did everything in the directions, but >it just didn't work. Anyone know of one that works >(or if I'm just dumb and doing something wrong)?
For a year or more, I've been using email at Los Angeles Free-Net (on a 80486 laptop with slink/potato). Fetchmail downloads email and sticks it under /var/spool/mail/... Now I'm faced with the task of fetching email from a second POP server someplace else on the Internet, meaning it's time to figure out how to get fetchmail to work through my proxy server at LAFN. >From a bit of research reading, one solution sounds like: runsocks fetchmail ... (the package is socks4 in potato/stable). That, i think, will SOCKSify the fetchmail process, making it possible to retrieve email from any POP server through the proxy. If that indeed does work, the next step (i think) would be to include it under /etc/ppp/ip-up.d -Rob Cymbala
